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13 Cards in this Set
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Speculation
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1920's |New York
Investors bought stocks and bonds on the chance that they might make a quick or a large profit, ignoring the risks. |
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Black Tuesday
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October 29, 1929 | New York
The stock market crashed and was a huge part of the great depression. The value of stocks went down really low. Investors tried selling stocks before it went even lower. |
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New Deal
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1930's | New York
FDR's team of professors, lawyers, and journalists. They formulated policies for his new administration. Designed to alleviate problems of the great depression. New Deal Policies focused on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform. |
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FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
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1933 | United States
Provided Federal insurance for individual bank accounts of less than $5,000. |
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CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
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was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1943 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. Earned $30 a month. $25 went home to family, $5 dollars to keep.
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Blitzkrieg
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1939 | Germany
The word, meaning "lightning war", a German battle strategy using the element of surprise on their enemy. |
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Lend-Lease
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was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945.
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European Theatre
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The European Theatre of World War II was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe from Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 until the end of the war
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Pacific Theatre
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1942
a major theatre of the war between the Allies and Japan. |
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944
The day allied forces invaded France. |
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Manhattan Project
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1942 to 1946
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program by the United States with the United Kingdom and Canada that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. |
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FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
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1933 - 1945
The 32nd president of the U.S. Lead the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. |
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Japanese Internment
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The relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans along the Pacific Coast.
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